Castanedia

Castanedia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae.^[2] It contains a single species, Castanedia santamartensis, a shrub endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northeastern Colombia.^[3] It grows in montane moist forests from 2400 to 3250 meters elevation.^[1]

Castanedia
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Asteroideae
Tribe:	Eupatorieae
Genus:	Castanedia R.M.King & H.Rob.
Species:	C. santamartensis
Binomial name
Castanedia santamartensis R.M.King & H.Rob.
Synonyms
Castenedia R.M.King & H.Rob., orth. var.

Both the genus and the species were circumscribed by Robert Merrill King and Harold Ernest Robinson in Phytologia vol.39 on page 58 in 1978.^[3]

The genus name of Castanedia is in honour of Rafael Romero Castañeda (1910–1973), who was a Colombian botanist and plant collector.^[4]